TY - JOUR
T1 - International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci
AU - Nievergelt, Caroline M.
AU - Maihofer, Adam X.
AU - Klengel, Torsten
AU - Atkinson, Elizabeth G.
AU - Chen, Chia Yen
AU - Choi, Karmel W.
AU - Coleman, Jonathan R.I.
AU - Dalvie, Shareefa
AU - Duncan, Laramie E.
AU - Gelernter, Joel
AU - Levey, Daniel F.
AU - Logue, Mark W.
AU - Polimanti, Renato
AU - Provost, Allison C.
AU - Ratanatharathorn, Andrew
AU - Stein, Murray B.
AU - Torres, Katy
AU - Aiello, Allison E.
AU - Almli, Lynn M.
AU - Amstadter, Ananda B.
AU - Andersen, Søren B.
AU - Andreassen, Ole A.
AU - Arbisi, Paul A.
AU - Ashley-Koch, Allison E.
AU - Austin, S. Bryn
AU - Avdibegovic, Esmina
AU - Babić, Dragan
AU - Bækvad-Hansen, Marie
AU - Baker, Dewleen G.
AU - Beckham, Jean C.
AU - Bierut, Laura J.
AU - Bisson, Jonathan I.
AU - Boks, Marco P.
AU - Bolger, Elizabeth A.
AU - Børglum, Anders D.
AU - Bradley, Bekh
AU - Brashear, Megan
AU - Breen, Gerome
AU - Bryant, Richard A.
AU - Bustamante, Angela C.
AU - Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas
AU - Calabrese, Joseph R.
AU - Caldas-de-Almeida, José M.
AU - Dale, Anders M.
AU - Geuze, Elbert
AU - Luykx, Jurjen J.
AU - Rutten, Bart P.F.
AU - Schijven, Dick
AU - Vermetten, Eric
AU - Vinkers, Christiaan H.
N1 - Funding Information:
L.J.B., J.P.R., and the spouse of N.L.S. are listed as inventors on Issued U.S. Patent 8,080,371, “Markers for Addiction,” covering the use of certain SNPs in determining the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of addiction. A.M.D. is a Founder of and holds equity in CorTechs Labs, Inc, and serves on its Scientific Advisory Board. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Human Longevity, Inc. and receives funding through research agreements with General Electric Healthcare and Medtronic, Inc. The terms of these arrangements have been reviewed and approved by UCSD in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. M.H. and A.C.P. are both employees of CVB, a Sponsor (nonprofit) of the study. In the past 3 years, R.C.K. received support for his epidemiological studies from Sanofi Aventis; was a consultant for Johnson & Johnson Wellness and Prevention, Sage Pharmaceuticals, Shire, Takeda; and served on an advisory board for the Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. Lake Nona Life Project. Kessler is a co-owner of DataStat, Inc., a market research firm that carries out healthcare research. H.R.K. is a member of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology’s Alcohol Clinical Trials Initiative (ACTIVE), which in the last three years was supported by AbbVie, Alkermes, Amygdala Neurosciences, Arbor, Ethypharm, Indivior, Lilly, Lundbeck, Otsuka, and Pfizer. He is also named as an inventor on PCT patent application #15/ 878,640 entitled: “Genotype-guided dosing of opioid agonists,” filed January 24, 2018. B. M.N. is a member, Scientific Advisory Board of Deep Genomics, a consultant for Camp4 Therapeutics Corporation, Merck & Co. and Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. B.O.R. owns equity in Virtually Better, Inc. that creates virtual reality products. The terms of this arrangement have been reviewed and approved by Emory University in accordance with its conflict of interest policies. In the past 3 years, D.J.S. has received research grants and/ or consultancy honoraria from Biocodex, Ludbeck, Servier, and Sun. M.B.S. has in the past three years been a consultant for Actelion, Aptinyx, Bionomics, Dart Neuroscience, Healthcare Management Technologies, Janssen, Neurocrine Biosciences, Oxeia Bio-pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, and Resilience Therapeutics. R.Y. is a co-inventor of the following patent application: “Genes associated with post-traumatic-stress disorder. European Patent# EP 2334816 B1”. T.W. has acted as scientific advisor to H. Lundbeck A/S. All remaining authors declare no competing interests.
Funding Information:
This work was funded by Cohen Veterans Bioscience, the NIMH/U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Grant R01MH106595 to C.M.N., I.L., K.J.R. and K.C.K., One Mind, and supported by 5U01MH109539 to the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Statistical Analysis were carried out on the NL Genetic Cluster computer (URL) hosted by SURFsara. Genotyping of samples was supported in part through the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genetics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. This research has been conducted using the UK biobank resource under application number 16577. This work would not have been possible without the contributions of the investigators who comprise the PGC-PTSD working group, and especially the more than 206,000 research participants worldwide who shared their life experiences and biological samples with PGC-PTSD investigators. Full acknowledgements are in the Supplementary Note 2.
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PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - The risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following trauma is heritable, but robust common variants have yet to be identified. In a multi-ethnic cohort including over 30,000 PTSD cases and 170,000 controls we conduct a genome-wide association study of PTSD. We demonstrate SNP-based heritability estimates of 5-20%, varying by sex. Three genome-wide significant loci are identified, 2 in European and 1 in African-ancestry analyses. Analyses stratified by sex implicate 3 additional loci in men. Along with other novel genes and non-coding RNAs, a Parkinson's disease gene involved in dopamine regulation, PARK2, is associated with PTSD. Finally, we demonstrate that polygenic risk for PTSD is significantly predictive of re-experiencing symptoms in the Million Veteran Program dataset, although specific loci did not replicate. These results demonstrate the role of genetic variation in the biology of risk for PTSD and highlight the necessity of conducting sex-stratified analyses and expanding GWAS beyond European ancestry populations.
AB - The risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following trauma is heritable, but robust common variants have yet to be identified. In a multi-ethnic cohort including over 30,000 PTSD cases and 170,000 controls we conduct a genome-wide association study of PTSD. We demonstrate SNP-based heritability estimates of 5-20%, varying by sex. Three genome-wide significant loci are identified, 2 in European and 1 in African-ancestry analyses. Analyses stratified by sex implicate 3 additional loci in men. Along with other novel genes and non-coding RNAs, a Parkinson's disease gene involved in dopamine regulation, PARK2, is associated with PTSD. Finally, we demonstrate that polygenic risk for PTSD is significantly predictive of re-experiencing symptoms in the Million Veteran Program dataset, although specific loci did not replicate. These results demonstrate the role of genetic variation in the biology of risk for PTSD and highlight the necessity of conducting sex-stratified analyses and expanding GWAS beyond European ancestry populations.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-019-12576-w
DO - 10.1038/s41467-019-12576-w
M3 - Article
C2 - 31594949
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 10
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
M1 - 4558
ER -